"Honorarium becomes a kind of punk send-up of the severe critical anthologies it otherwise mimics. Given the packed hardwood shelves depicted on its cover, Honorarium might look like a book written by the kind of guy who has his own private library. But in fact Honorarium is a library in a book, one whose curation reflects an insatiable and instructive curiosity."
-John Nyman, Broken Pencil
"Far removed, for the most part, from the cathedrals of CanLit and the postmodernist ideologues of academic literary criticism, these raw, intelligent strivers register searing particulars of the zeitgeist as it races onward — with technology and pop culture slicing generations, and attention spans, into thinner and thinner fragments and shards."
-Gilbert Reid, The Literary Review of Canada
In Honorarium, Nathaniel G. Moore compiles twenty years’ worth of reading other people’s books, while also faithfully attempting to convey a sense of what it’s like to work behind-the-scenes in CanLit. Always breaking from convention, Moore’s non-fiction is imbued with a sense of urgency, passion and intimacy with the community of creators that surround him; creators that include Mark Leyner, Sheila Heti, Camilla Gibb, Jen Sookfong Lee, Catullus and Chuck Palahniuk. Add the author’s backstory of growing up anxious, escaping through literature and giving back to the community he sought out at the century’s onset, as well as previously unpublished pieces on the NXIVM sex cult and book publicity, and Honorarium is both a time capsule and a survey course into the ever-changing, mysterious world of Canadian publishing.
